Bioethics Education International (BEI) advances policy and intercultural bioethics debates from the beginning to the end of life.
Who We Are
BEI is a 501c3 tax exempt not-for-profit international organization incorporated in the State of New York, located in Manhattan.
Who will benefit from BEI’s programs and activities?
The organization benefits students, professionals and policy makers from various fields, such as healthcare, the humanities, and the law, as well as policy makers and the public at large. It aims to provide stakeholders with resources to understand and find solutions to issues in global health, health care, new medical technologies, and the life sciences.
How will BEI achieve its educational and outreach purposes?
Through an online bioethics hub, BEI is offering engaging and interactive e-learning courses, webinars, and training sessions. The hub will offer timely topics in bioethics in creative ways, incorporating an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to confronting ethical issues in medicine, bioscience, medical technology, life sciences, and the environment. BEI provides public access to international bioethics education, facilitates collaborative learning, networking and community debates across the life course around the globe.
News and Articles
The Dark Side of Silicon Valley
A community called Women in AI Ethics recently shared a reading list on The Dark Side of Silicon Valley: eight books, including Dying for an iPhone, Atlas of AI, Your Face Belongs to Us, Careless [...]
When Does Helping Others Become the Cause of Your Death?
The Dead Donor Rule has long required that a patient be dead before organs are removed. A new proposal asks whether patients who have already chosen euthanasia should be allowed to donate organs before death, [...]
Does an Outbreak End at the Border?
Uganda's declaration that it is Ebola free is a public health success worth celebrating. The virus, however, has not disappeared. While Uganda contained just 20 cases and ended the outbreak after the required 42-day waiting [...]
The Ethics of Open-Ended Consent
Open-ended consent asks donors to agree that their tissue may be used for future research they can't specifically anticipate. It sounds like a reasonable compromise because science moves in directions no one can fully predict. [...]